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Meeting #1519, 8 June 59:
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McCone is enroute to Geneva at the request of Secretary of State Herter
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for discussions relative to the Foreign Ministers meeting there and the
conference on nuclear test cessation,
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An8 June letter from Art Cox to Francis Porzel of the Armour Research
Foundation in Chicago notes that Newman is proceeding with designs for 1100
foot holes for LASL 1OKT shots.
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Also, Brownlee is proceeding with hydrodynamics
calculations in soil and ‘Yioods is doing similar calculations for SALT.
Rox
requests any references to information on the equation of state for ice due to
consideration of that medium also.
An8June 59 status report by Shuster of Sandia on Sandia's balloon development
gram contains informetion on the flights of a 5000 lb. payload balloon and a
000 lb. balloon.
Both have been
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tested at the NTS, and experiments to investigate
feasibility of incorporating a Pinex experiment in a balloon configuration have been
fonned. Also design studies of balloon
installation for EPG have given the indication
t it would be feasible to carry payloads to altitudes of about 5000 feet in the EPG.
the Commander
} June Memo from the Deputy Commander of the 4950th to
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role of this Squadron end wee
the 4952nd Support Squadron at Kirtland discusses the
‘ing the moratorium,
The new mission statement includes the fact that the
ing the assembly
adron is responsible for the technical operations includ
tasks in analyzing
launch of research rockets and the various peripheral
vand performance.